[RH List] RE: Separate shell and www servers...

[Ed Wilts]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 01:11:35PM -0600, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
>    Couple of hundred users, with a couple of several hundred sites 
> (several sites per user.)  I need it to be live in that when a user 
> makes a change, it gets reflected right away, so the rsync idea wouldn't 
> work - even running it every minute because the amount of data that it 
> will be transferring back and forth.  I have users that do massive 
> changes to their site, and that would take more than a minute to 
> transfer back and forth.  That's why I thought of using an active NFS 
> mount.  I'm just not sure how to implement it.

The automounter might really help you here.  As the user logs in, the
home area will be automatically mounted (or subdirectories, one per
site perhaps).  The user can make all the changes, then the mount will
be automatically dismounted a minute or two later.

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Ed Wilts, RHCE
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